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I'm an Amiga programming newbie.

I need to produce an application that displays graphics in a similar way to the popular drawing application, Deluxe Paint by Dan Silva, published by Electronic Arts. Just a vertically scrolling image, preferably in HAM mode.

How do I open a new screen based on the result from a screenmode requester dialogue box using HiSoft C for the Amiga?

Requirements:

  • Open a new hires interlaced screen in as many colours as hardware will allow
  • Basic menu structure that I can manipulate (Top Right-click menu)
  • A project window, similar to the HiSoft C editor

  • A control panel along the top similar to the one in Digita Wordworth with text boxes, buttons and tabs

  • I also need an off screen buffer that is as wide as the screen and as tall as memory will allow.

This needs to be compatible with:

  • Workbench 3.0 and above
  • 68020 and above
  • ECS & AGA chipset
  • 0.5..2Mb chipmem + 0..∞ fastmem
WonderWorker
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  • The first thing to do is to find a copy of the Native Developer Kit (can apparently be found [here](http://www.vesalia.de/e_developer2.htm)). Any version up to and including version 3.9 can be used. It should contain plenty of examples, as well as a very detailed reference of, well, everything. – Some programmer dude Nov 01 '13 at 09:14
  • As for C compiler you could use DICE, whose source can be downloaded [from here](http://www.obviously.com/dice/) and cross-compiled on basically any UNIX-like machine. – Some programmer dude Nov 01 '13 at 09:15
  • Thanks Joachim. I bought the CD and Haage&Partner's StormC compiler comes bundled on it. For this project I need to use HiSoft C by order of the proposal, but the CD has some interesting stuff on it too. – WonderWorker Nov 02 '13 at 10:50
  • In an attempt to clear the fog for Luv, syb0rg, Kevin, 1 and Sauabh. Like many questions on here, not everyone will understand the question being asked. luckykaa understood the question and came up with a possible solution. There is a model of computer called the Amiga and a version of the C language by a company called HiSoft. What Ineed help with is to create a skeleton project for standard windows style applications, but instead of using Windows, I want the program to run under the Workbench operating system. – WonderWorker Mar 04 '14 at 10:00

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From the question, I'm not sure how experienced you are with Amiga programming. If you have zero experience with the way windows and screens are set up, then I can strongly recommend Anders Bjerin's Amiga C Manual

It's fairly old and predates AGA, but it shouldn't be a huge problem to extrapolate how to open a 256 colour screen.

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  • Thank you for the tip luckykaa. The link is broken, which you might want to fix, but it got me to aminet at least, and from there I searched and found it. Thank you so much – WonderWorker Nov 01 '13 at 20:45